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1. Add MS 45158 A

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Add MS 45158 A
Title:
‘Diary of Gertrude Bell, 1911.’
Scope & Content:
The first of two oblong duodecimo volumes containing abbreviated notes recorded by Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, during the course of a journey through Syria, Turkey and Iraq, from Damascus to Aleppo via Baghdad. The volume covers the period 9 February to 18 April 1911, covering Bell’s depart...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1911-18 Apr 1911
Extent:
1 volume (33 folios)

2. Add MS 45158 B

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 45158 B
Title:
‘Diary of Gertrude Bell, 1911.’
Scope & Content:
The second of two oblong duodecimo volumes containing abbreviated notes recorded by Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, during the course of a journey through Syria, Turkey and Iraq, from Damascus to Aleppo via Baghdad. The volume covers the period 19 April to 23 May 1911, covering the journey from...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Greek, Ancient, and Syriac
Date Range:
19 Apr 1911-23 May 1911
Extent:
1 volume (37 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 2-30

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 2-30
Title:
Aden Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 1 dated 1 January 1857. The enclosures are dated 9 November-29 December 1856. The papers relate to the conclusion of a treaty with the Habr A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1857
Extent:
1 item (29 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/671

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/671
Title:
'CONFIDENTIAL 86/7-I B.34. OIL TRUCIAL COAST'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle, Percy Gordon Loch), the Political Agent at Bahrain (Percy Gordon Loch), the India Office (Maurice Clausen, John Charles Walton) and Edward Henry Ommaney Elkington, General Manager of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
26 May 1935-4 Dec 1935
Extent:
1 volume (271 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/672

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/672
Title:
'CONFIDENTIAL 86/7-II B-35 OIL TRUCIAL COAST & OMAN'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle); the Political Agent at Bahrain (Percy Gordon Loch), the India Office (John Charles Walton); the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (L Lefroy, Edward Henry Ommaney Elkington, Hajji ‘Abdullah Wil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
10 Jul 1934-29 Feb 1936
Extent:
1 volume (207 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/673

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/673
Title:
CONFIDENTIAL 86/7-III B.36. TRUCIAL COAST.
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the intention of Petroleum Concessions Limited (PCL) to negotiate extensions on the options that the D’Arcy Exploration Company had acquired with the rulers of Abu Dhabi (Shaikh Shakhbūt bin Sulṭān bin Zāyid Āl Nahyān), Ajman (Rāshid Bin Ḥumaid Al-Nu`aimī), Dibai [Dubai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
21 Jan 1936-30 Jun 1936
Extent:
1 volume (246 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/675

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/675
Title:
'Confidential 86/7-v B.41 PETROLEUM CONCESSIONS LTD., TRUCIAL COAST'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle, Percy Gordon Loch), the India Office (Maurice Clauson), the Foreign Office (John Cecil Sterndale Bennett), the Colonial Office (Owen Gwyn Revell Williams), representatives of Petroleum ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
23 Oct 1936-29 May 1937
Extent:
1 volume (302 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/677

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/677
Title:
'Vol-B.44. Confidential 86/7-vii. P.C.L. TRUCIAL COAST'
Scope & Content:
The volume primarily consists of correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle, Percy Gordon Loch); Political Agent at Bahrain (Tom Hickinbotham); the Residency Agent at Sharjah (Khan Sahib Abd ‘al-Razzaq) the India Office (John Charles Walton, Maurice...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
26 May 1937-9 Aug 1937
Extent:
1 volume (198 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/682

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/682
Title:
'Confidential 86/12-i A. 70 Petroleum Concessions Limited. MUSCAT'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle), the Political Agent at Bahrain (Percy Gordon Loch), the Political Agent at Muscat (Ralph Ponsonby Watts), the India Office (Maurice Clauson), Petroleum Concessions Limited (Major Frank...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Feb 1936-31 May 1937
Extent:
1 volume (238 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/5/66

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/66
Title:
22/16 Mr Philby's Mission to Najd - 1918.
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the Najd mission to Ibn Sa‘ūd by Harry St John Bridger Philby, Political Officer. Correspondence mainly concerns the dispatch and arrival of supplies for St John Philby: tea, tobacco, film, ammunition an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 Feb 1918-2 Nov 1925
Extent:
1 volume (269 folios)